Ta. I'd have preferred to have it grouped by station then date, so I'll have a go at putting together a list myself from Nick's list and also from the results of a search on the BBC site which appears to have links to the various programme pages.

Music Matters - Sound of Cinema: Zbigniew Preisner 12.15-1pm Includes an interview with the Polish film composer Zbigniew Preisner. Plus historian Mervyn Cooke and composer Jocelyn Pook discuss the challenges facing classical composers in the film industry.

are we assuming there wil b a programme on each of his top ten film scores, recently posted n here?

or a show featuring 2 films each time?

the first sound of cinema show looks gd, advert showd psycho and GBU.

I can't find any more details for Brand's Essential Classics slot other than what's on the media guide section as linked. It does mention there that the 'introductions' will be made available as a podcast which suggests it'll be in MP3 format and available to download worldwide, so it seems it wouldn't be absolutely necessary to catch them all as broadcast and instead you could pick and choose at a later date which ones you wanted to listen to.

Actually the season is well underway. The John Wilson proms concert which was both televised and broadcast on radio (the latter with extra commentary) is, I'd suspect, the far greater of the Prom film music concerts.

Also, the Radio 2 people, 'Friday Night is Music Night' performed an evening of film music with the BBC Concert Orchestra a coupla' weeks ago.

I think there have been a few 'pre-cursor' programmes that have had film music in them over the last couple of weeks, but in the BBC's various blurbs the season is supposed to start 'proper' on 12th September.

The BBC hasn't published it's radio schedules any more than seven days ahead, so the Friday 20th concert isn't listed as of yet on their main Radio 3 schedule, which is why I haven't picked up on it. I've no doubt that there will be other programmes I've missed as they too are too far ahead to pick up in searches. We'll need to keep on our toes to ensure we know about the stuff not yet in the schedules.

Well done, Ian. I thought I'd done well but you have gone the extra mile!

You are quite right about the Gideon Coe programme: it is Thursday, not Friday.

It's worth noting that: - In Tune will feature a daily film guest - to include Danny Elfman, Carl Davis (Thursday), Alan Parker (Monday), Roger Michell, and Nicolas Roeg; - Night Waves on the 19th is devoted to THE INNOCENTS (1961); - the guest in Essential Classics every day next week at 10.30 is Tim Pigott-Smith; - David Arnold is Edith Bowman's guest on the 14th and presenter himself on the 15th at Noon; and - each of the Sound of Cinema BBC4 progs will be repeated on the following Sunday - this coming Sunday it will be at 10.35pm, after KING KONG, and then again at 2.35am (Monday).

"A special show live from BFI, Southbank in London, to launch Radio 3's Sound of Cinema season.

His guests include Norma Herrmann, widow of the great film score composer Bernard Herrmann whose celebrated partnership with Alfred Hitchcock gave rise to some of the most disconcerting scores in cinema history; silent film pianist and composer Neil Brand; and the Tippett Quartet playing live and showcasing some of the best music to come out of the movie News Neil Brand, Norma Herrmann • Tippett Quartet"

"Sean Rafferty is live at the BFI, launching Sound Of Cinema with Norma Herrmann - widow of film composer Bernard Herrmann - silent film pianist Neil Brand and the Tippett Quartet.

Sean presents a special show live from the BFI, on London’s Southbank, to launch Radio 3's Sound Of Cinema season and to tie in with the BFI's focus on the Gothic.

His guests include Norma Herrmann, widow of the great film score composer Bernard Herrmann, whose celebrated partnership with Alfred Hitchock gave rise to some of the most disconcerting scores in cinema history; silent film pianist and composer Neil Brand; and the Tippett Quartet playing live and showcasing some of the best music to come out of the movies."

In my opinion, the BBC film music season got off to a great start last night with a presenter who knows his stuff. Homage paid to golden years masters Steiner, Rozsa, Herrmann and Korngold. Admittedly there were omissions like Newman, Tiomkin and Webb but all the people cannot be pleased all the time.

Brilliant analysis and assessment of the contributions of Steiner, Korngold, Rozsa, Herrmann and also Barry, Williams etc..

Neil Brand knows his onions. He correctly assessed Miklos Rozsa's contribution as being truly one of the MODERNISTS, rather than just a late romantic. Great analyses of 'Adventures of Robin Hood', 'Double Indemnity', 'Citizen Kane', 'Psycho', 'Vertigo', 'King's Row', 'The Ipcress File', 'King Kong', etc..

This has to be the biggest ever exposure of the film-score medium for a whole season over many formats from live Albert Hall concerts to radio interviews, and this show so far is great.

you are right william he does know his onions. Brands top ten got a bit slaughtered on here but you can see the logic behind his choices and the category of score that each represents. I will be intrigued to see how he covers GBU/fistful.